Example sentences of "he want [prep] be [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The message for Mr Major : unless he wants to be prisoner to such as these , he should plan to go to the polls by April 1996 at the latest .
2 ‘ We all know he wants to be King himself . ’
3 He wants to be part , you know , influence that decision , and that 's important to all of us is n't it ?
4 Instead of leaving that , as hitherto , to market forces , it appears that the Secretary of State wants to intervene ; he wants to be dirigiste .
5 And the couple can look forward to more proud moments in the future , Antony their youngest son says when he grows up he wants to be soldier and be just as brave as his dad .
6 And he wanted to be part of that ruling , governing , corrupting , self-enriching , self-perpetuating , invincible body which had even managed to escape revolution — he wanted to be high on its highest heap .
7 I know perfectly well that when he was chairman of the Greater London council he wanted an elected police authority , and I think that he wanted to be chairman of it
8 In the course of it Edward Lucas , a BBC Prague correspondent , asked Havel directly if he wanted to be president .
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